Rachel Carson Quotes

Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.

George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

It's one thing to think about something, but it's another thing to actually feel it.

In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel

You cannot know what you do not feel.

Feel the world, instead of trying to understand the world.

I'm very, very in touch with my emotions.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

I perceive the world through the wide range of emotions that whirl all around in it.

I don't have a great intellect, and I can't compete with people who do. I feel certain things. And all I know, and all I can do, is what I feel.

I am a really sensitive person.

Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel.

I am a very sensitive person.

Some people spend their time and thoughts in feeling, hearing, seeing, and listening. Whatever cannot be felt or experienced they will not accept. We call these people 'emotional.'

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding. ~Sosuke Aizen

If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.

Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

The wise are wise only because they love.

A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.